Empowered By Play Mission: To help families and teachers protect and promote imaginative play in this way-too busy, media-filled, consumer-driven world. Empowered by Play was founded in 2009 by teacher-turned-activist Geralyn Bywater McLaughlin, M.Ed. An early childhood educator for 25 years, she is also a mother of [...]
Education Week
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:44-05:00Education Week Mission and History Editorial Projects in Education has its origins in the Sputnik era, when anxiety over the United States’ ability to withstand a concerted challenge to its technological pre-eminence touched off a wave of initiatives to improve the nation’s schools and colleges. Although EPE [...]
Education News Today
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:44-05:00Education News Today is a Global Leading News Source covering educational, political, business, and environmental issues. Since 1997 EducationNews has provided the latest daily EducationNews coverage from world-wide sources. In addition to the U. S. and world media publications, commentaries and reports are featured and include comprehensive [...]
PDK International; Phi Delta Kappa International
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:44-05:00PDK International, publisher of Kappa magazine, is a professional association for educators that brings together the top leaders, thinkers, and doers to collaborate and inspire one another. By providing professional learning opportunities, targeted networking, and relevant research, PDK helps researchers and practitioners deepen their expertise, elevate their [...]
The Alliance for Excellent Education
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:44-05:00About The Alliance for Excellent Education Mission: The mission of the Alliance for Excellent Education is to promote high school transformation to make it possible for every child to graduate prepared for postsecondary learning and success in life. Vision:: The Alliance for Excellent Education envisions a nation [...]
Rethinking Schools
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:45-05:00About Rethinking Schools In 1986, a group of Milwaukee-area teachers had a vision. They wanted not only to improve education in their own classrooms and schools, but to help shape reform throughout the public school system in the United States. Today that vision is embodied in Rethinking [...]
Edu4
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:45-05:00Edu4 Educators 4 children, 4 the public, 4 social justice, 4 the future”—is a network of diverse individuals who come together to create and recreate public spaces where they resist and provide an alternative vision for the current “education reforms” that embrace corporate ideologies and advance privatization [...]
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:45-05:00About Us; The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood Learn all about CCFC! Visit About CCFC for our mission statement and how Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood works to reclaim childhood from corporate marketers. For a description of major CCFC successes and a history of the organization, visit [...]
Annenberg Institute for School Reform
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:45-05:00Annenberg Institute for School Reform is a national policy research and reform-support organization that works with urban districts and communities to improve the conditions and outcomes of schools, especially in urban communities and in those attended by traditionally underserved children. AISR pursues its work through three circles: [...]